Paul herman kraetch



Dec 22. 1925.

P. H. KRAETcH SIPHON Filed July 7. 1925 i' INVENTOR Pff mim-fc@ ATTORNEYS WITNESSES Patented Dec. 22, 1925.

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Application mea July 7, 1925.v sei-iai No. 42h55,- l

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Be it known that I, ,PAUL KRAETCH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Astoria, in the county of Clatsop and State of Oregon, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Siphons, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generallyto siphons and more particularly to siphon devices for removing liquids from bottles, jars and the like, my object being the provision of a simple inexpensive hand controlled and manipulated device by means of which a siphon action may be readily and quickly started in discharging the contents of a bottle, jar, and the like, and the amount of fluid removed from the bottle readily controlled at the will of the operator.

More especially my invention aims to pro- Vide a siphon device by means of which cream may be removed from the upper portions of milk bottles and the like, and the liquid discharged to just the desired point in a ready, easy manner.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my present invention and forms part of this specification:

Figure l is a side view illustrating the practical application of my. invention;

Figure 2 is a detailed perspective view of the siphon tube and disk, and', c

Figure 3 is a detailed perspective view of the controlling and actuating member.

Referring now to these figures, and particularly to Figure 1 I have shown my improved device applied to a milk bottle generally indicated at 10 for the purpose of discharging cream therefrom down to the line 11, the discharge liquid or cream passing through the tube 12 into a receptacle 13.

The siphon tube 12 is'preferably formed of rubber and of one diameter throughout with its outer or discharge end notched at its sides as at 1.4 in order to permit of the outflow of cream with the end of the tube resting against the bottom of the receptacle 13.

The iiexible siphon tube 12 is jointed at its opposite end with a iie-Xible disk 15 through the center of which the said end of the tube opens. The disk and tube may be joined in any suitable manner, but it is preferable that they be formed integral, the disk itself being sufciently Aflexible to be easily forced downwardly into the mouth of a milk bottle 10 and being of a slightly greater i diametertlian the tupper.smaller.portion of the bottle neck.

With the siphon tube:l utilize` a manual Vcontrolling and manipulating member consisting lof a rod or relatively heavy stiE wire 16 having its body provided at one end with an enlarged loop and the like 17 adapted to form a handle. At the opposite end of the body the rod or wire 16 is provided with ay longitudinal coil 18 of sufficient diameter to permit the siphon tube 12 to be passed through the coil. At the end of the longitudinal coil 18 the adjacent end of the controlling and manipulating member has convolutions of creasing diameter forming a at coil as at 19 adapted to engage or rest against the disk 15 with the coil 18 surroundingv the tube 12 at a vpoint immediately adjacent to said disk. The largest of the convolutions 19 is of less diameter than that of the bottle neck, howradually inever, and for this Hat coil-as Well as for the longitudinal coil 18, two or three convolutions are suilicient. y

The siphon is employed in use by placing the disk 15 upon the upper end of thevbottle neck, which it is adapted to cover and b means of the rod or wire 16, forcing the dis downwardly into the bottle neck and the cream therein so that this cream is forced upwardly into the siphon tube and siphonv action started. For this purpose the opera-` tor grasps the handle 17v of the controlling and manipulating device and thereafter during the continuance of the siphon actionthe operator gradually forces the disk 15 downwardly into the bottle neck until the line l11 separating the milk from the cream is reached. It is obvious that as the disk passes below the neck of the bottle it moves out of contact therewith but the siphon action having already been started it is simplyl neces sary for the operator to keep the disk below` Y 1. A Siphon device including elongated flexibleV tube having a flexible disk at one end through which the respective end .of the tube Y Y 5 opens, and a manual controlling and manipul0-be forced downwardly into a receptacle to' a desired position therein.

V2. siphonfdevice including' afflexible tube, a pieXible diskv at one endet the tube through which the respective end of the tube opens,` and a controllingfand manipulating member including a rod having a handle at its upper end and having Coils atV its lower end, one of said coils adapted to receive the tube therethrough, land the other coil er1-Vl gaging the disk whereby to brace the latter.

lPAUL HERMAN Kanaren; 

